I 'J A Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



roo (1873).— RiDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. IV, p. iii (1S81).— A. & 

 E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 109 (18S1). — Cory, List Bds. W. I. 

 p. 20 (1885). 

 Zcbrapicus radiolatus Malh. Mon. Pic. II, p. 237 (1862). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Forehead and throat dull white ; crown bright red; 

 breast smoke gray, becoming jellowish-olive on the underparto; a 

 faint reddish tinge near the vent, sometimes lacking; back black, 

 the feathers delicately barred with dull white ; rump black, barred 

 with white ; tail black, the inner webs of the two central feathers 

 delicately barred with white ; wings black, showing numerous clot- 

 tings of white on the secondaries and the basal portions of the outer 

 webs of some of the primaries. 



Female: — Forehead white ; top of the head smoky-brown ; a band 

 of red at the base of the skull ; otherwise similar to the male. 



Length, 10.50; wing, 5; tail, 3.50; tarsus, .90; bill, 1.25. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Centurus superciliaris (Temm.). 



PicHS superciliarisTr.M^^i. PI. Col. IV, p. 433 (1820-39). — Cuv. Reg. An. 



p. 451 (1S29). — Wacl. Isis, 1829, p. 515. — Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 227 



(1831). — TiiiENE. J. i. O. 1857, P- i.SS- 

 Colaptes superciliaris \iG. Zool. Journ. Ill, p. 445 (1827). — D'Orb. in 



La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 146 ^1840). 

 Colaptes sitperciliosus Gray, Gen. I3ds. II, p. 446 (1844-49). 

 Centurus superciliaris Bp. Consp. I, p. 118 (1850). — Reich. Handb. p. 



408 (1854). — GUXDL. J. f O. 1S56, p. 103; H). 1874, p. 152. oREWER, 



Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p- 307 (i860).— ScL. Cat. Am. Bds. 

 p. 342 (1862). — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. joi (1873). — 

 RiDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. IV, p. 115 (1S81).— Cory, List Bds. W 

 L p. 20 (18S5). 

 Zcbrapicus superciliaris Malh. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, p. 361. 



Sp. Char. Male: — Forehead white, showing a faint tinge of orange red at 

 base of the upper mandible ; crown deep red, the color extending to 

 the nape; a patch of black over and back of the eye; rest of head 

 and throat dull grayish white; breast yellowish olive, becoming 

 distinctly yellowish on the belly ; a patch of deep red on the middle 

 of the bellv; back and Avings heavily banded with black and white, 

 showing a laint yellowish tinge on the back; primaries dark brown, 

 narrowly tipped with Avhite on the fifth and sixth ; the two central 

 tail-feathers heavily banded with black and white; the outer tail- 

 feathers banded with black and white near the tip; rest of tail- 

 feathers fi^intly tipped with white; bill black; feet black. 



Female: — Similar to the male, but having top of the head white 



